A lamp on the nightstand and the room light are about the only pieces of technology in my bedroom. On the nightstand with the lamp is a candle lantern. My dresser and closet have only clothes. Over the window I have blackout blinds. I have a lithograph of this 19th century Japanese painting of a cat on the wall over the dresser.
Hard to say what will motivate a manager, but in the case of the folks using the tools on a regular basis, it can be effective to talk to them about the way you imagine bug tracking should work, the benefits they get from those practices, and then talk about how your current tool supports or inhibits those practices.
The first two steps, practices and their benefits, are something I've done a little research on, and put together a set of Defect Tracking Patterns that discuss how to work and the benefits of those practices in context.
Maybe if you can convince enough of the folks to want to adopt good practices, and that the current tool does not work well for those, you'll have some leverage with THe Boss.
I'll second wv, formerly know as MSWordView. I've used it since before the name change and have been satisfied. According to the blurb at freshmeat,
wv (formerly known as MSWordView) is a library that understands the Microsoft Word 2000, 97, 95 and 6 file formats (".doc"), and is able to convert Word documents into HTML, which can then be read with a browser. It also allows other programs access to Word documents for the purpose of converting them to other formats (like RTF, PostScript, and PDF), and is currently being used by Abiword as its word importer.
If by chance you have any Java around, the POI HDF APIs are great for manipulating that Horrible Document Format.
I hate Rose 6 ways to Sunday, but ArgoUML doesn't do what I need. There's more to visualizing software than class diagrams, and ArgoUML's support for interaction and sequence diagrams is non-existent. If the world were sane, MagicDraw would be the tool of choice and Rose would be consigned to old-timers tales of "remember how bad the UI of that thing was?" and the Wayback machine.
The article is about Earth's gravity shifting -- like it says in the title of the post. Why does the body of the post mention "recent changes in Earth's magnetic field"? Does/. know something about a unified theory that physicists don't?
Sorry, until we have the current living heir to the intellectual tradition and rigor of Richard P. Feynman examine and confirm these claims, it's just so much snake oil.
The Russian launchers have, in general, better success records than average. The Proton has a 92% success rate, the
R7/Soyuz even better -- by 2000, 1,628 had been launched with an unmatched success rate of 97.5%. US launchers like the Atlas and Delta families don't have better success rates.
I can second that -- where I work it was taking people many minutes to sync their Palms, until the Exchange admins finally upgraded and cleaned up the Exchange server, when sync times dropped back to something normal.
Don't get me started on why it takes 5 separate machines for Exchange to handle just 2000 people, though.
Yes, actually they did, and there was some awesome video closeup from just forward of the 2nd stage engine. Space Flight now has subscribers-only links at http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/delta4/video/. Or check back at Boeing's page in a couple of days: http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/delta/fl ash.htmlI
I would just not buy this at all. I write with my left hand, and the Palm PDA is already somewhat righty-specific, but not so that it matters, just annoying. This may be odd for a lefty, but I wear my watch on my left wrist. Even the most flexible person I've met can't touch their left fingers to their left wrist, so clearly I'm not going to be doing any Graffiti with it. I would probably be able to get comfortable using my right hand on the controls, but it would take practice. I would never get comfortable with my watch on my right wrist.
Anyway, that's my lefty/righty rant for today. Discuss amonst yourselves.
How is finding and patching bugs and security holes a negative consequence for users? No one will be forced to upgrade, unlike the customers of certain MegaSized companies.
In fact, it rolls the other way -- the author will be able to say that with additional eyes and resources looking at the code, small problems that have been nagging users but haven't been high enough priority to get fixed may finally get looked at an patched. A win for all.
Uh, no. Thanks for playing. There are things that C++ does that Java does not -- some of which I'm thankful do not exist in Java (preprocessor) and some of which I miss (generics). But despite its C-like syntax and superficial resemblances (finalizers seem like destructors but aren't) Java is more like Smalltalk than C++.
Yes, the old gas turbines. Fast and fuel-efficient at high speed, but it's a fact of life in railroading that locomotives spend most of their lives idling in one yard or another. UP found that they sucked fuel almost as fast idling as at full throttle. "The turbines burned about 90% of max HP fuel at idle so they would shut the turbine down going down longer hill. BIG THING, is you never stopped turning the turbine hot because the shaft was so long/heavy that it would sag when hot and you would never get it turning again. If you did it would be somewhat out of balance and shake the heck out of things." -- http://www.northeast.railfan.net/turbine_faq.html
Cool engines though, and other than the fuel consumption at idle, they were successful experiments.
RMS is true to his values, he won't (and can't, because of the GPL) add a restriction to the gcc or gnu binutils license that says "can't be used to build BitKeeper", but that's effectively what the BitKeeper license is saying, in reverse. In fact people, including Stallman, have taken great pains to point out the fact that the GPL doesn't apply in cases like what the BK license is restricting. For my money, the changes to the BK license are a cynical exploitation of the community which carries BK on its back.
* one forty-five caliber automatic * two boxes of ammunition * four days' concentrated emergency rations * one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills * one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible * one hundred dollars in rubles * one hundred dollars in gold * nine packs of chewing gum * one issue of prophylactics * three lipsticks * three pair of nylon stockings
I can shoot pictures with my film camera with dead batteries, or no batteries. If I'm out in the far reaches of BFE and my batteries go, I still can take photos. I have cameras that don't even take batteries. If a freezing wind puts the chemical reaction in my batteries to sleep, I can still take photos. I might run out of film sometime, but for the price and weight I'm sure I can carry around far more high-resolution high-fidelity frames.
The original programmer cast the result to a float to avoid a precision warning
That should have been the red flag that was listened to. Tell me, what does ANSI C say about the result of casting a multiplication of two doubles to a float? How many bits of precision do you retain? What happens on overflow? Can this be different across platforms and O/S? 32-bit and 64-bit hardware? What happens if one or both of the operands is FLOAT_MAX?
If I were cynical I'd say the defense contractors came up with the fancy new name "aeroelastic" for technology that's been around since the beginning of heavier-than-air flight because you can't go to the Air Force and say, "Please give me a billion dollars to play with wing-warping".
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A lamp on the nightstand and the room light are about the only pieces of technology in my bedroom. On the nightstand with the lamp is a candle lantern. My dresser and closet have only clothes. Over the window I have blackout blinds. I have a lithograph of this 19th century Japanese painting of a cat on the wall over the dresser.
I'll second Alonzo Church. Think about it -- to have a meeting "in Church"!
Hard to say what will motivate a manager, but in the case of the folks using the tools on a regular basis, it can be effective to talk to them about the way you imagine bug tracking should work, the benefits they get from those practices, and then talk about how your current tool supports or inhibits those practices.
The first two steps, practices and their benefits, are something I've done a little research on, and put together a set of Defect Tracking Patterns that discuss how to work and the benefits of those practices in context.
Maybe if you can convince enough of the folks to want to adopt good practices, and that the current tool does not work well for those, you'll have some leverage with THe Boss.
1. Pass out bobble-head dolls of the CEO to all employees. ...
2.
3. PROFIT!!
From 1/2 an OS to 1/3 an OS? And we call this progress?
Obviously, the grasshopper -- the only invertebrate -- doesn't belong.
Yeh, but, what if the Bladerunner is himself a replicant?
If by chance you have any Java around, the POI HDF APIs are great for manipulating that Horrible Document Format.
I hate Rose 6 ways to Sunday, but ArgoUML doesn't do what I need. There's more to visualizing software than class diagrams, and ArgoUML's support for interaction and sequence diagrams is non-existent. If the world were sane, MagicDraw would be the tool of choice and Rose would be consigned to old-timers tales of "remember how bad the UI of that thing was?" and the Wayback machine.
The article is about Earth's gravity shifting -- like it says in the title of the post. Why does the body of the post mention "recent changes in Earth's magnetic field"? Does /. know something about a unified theory that physicists don't?
Is it just me or is /. really getting heavily into the Bad Science articles?
Sorry, until we have the current living heir to the intellectual tradition and rigor of Richard P. Feynman examine and confirm these claims, it's just so much snake oil.
The Russian launchers have, in general, better success records than average. The Proton has a 92% success rate, the R7/Soyuz even better -- by 2000, 1,628 had been launched with an unmatched success rate of 97.5%. US launchers like the Atlas and Delta families don't have better success rates.
I can second that -- where I work it was taking people many minutes to sync their Palms, until the Exchange admins finally upgraded and cleaned up the Exchange server, when sync times dropped back to something normal.
Don't get me started on why it takes 5 separate machines for Exchange to handle just 2000 people, though.
Yes, actually they did, and there was some awesome video closeup from just forward of the 2nd stage engine. Space Flight now has subscribers-only links at http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/delta4/video/. Or check back at Boeing's page in a couple of days: http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/delta/fl ash.htmlI
I would just not buy this at all. I write with my left hand, and the Palm PDA is already somewhat righty-specific, but not so that it matters, just annoying. This may be odd for a lefty, but I wear my watch on my left wrist. Even the most flexible person I've met can't touch their left fingers to their left wrist, so clearly I'm not going to be doing any Graffiti with it. I would probably be able to get comfortable using my right hand on the controls, but it would take practice. I would never get comfortable with my watch on my right wrist.
Anyway, that's my lefty/righty rant for today. Discuss amonst yourselves.
How is finding and patching bugs and security holes a negative consequence for users? No one will be forced to upgrade, unlike the customers of certain MegaSized companies.
In fact, it rolls the other way -- the author will be able to say that with additional eyes and resources looking at the code, small problems that have been nagging users but haven't been high enough priority to get fixed may finally get looked at an patched. A win for all.
Java does everything that C++ does
Uh, no. Thanks for playing. There are things that C++ does that Java does not -- some of which I'm thankful do not exist in Java (preprocessor) and some of which I miss (generics). But despite its C-like syntax and superficial resemblances (finalizers seem like destructors but aren't) Java is more like Smalltalk than C++.
Take a quick gander the section For C, C++ Fans in Peter van der Linden's Java Programmers FAQ
But then, why am I arguing over the relative merits of Perl, Java, C++, and C# with a user having the handle "Microsoft Research" who posts pure FUD?
Yes, the old gas turbines. Fast and fuel-efficient at high speed, but it's a fact of life in railroading that locomotives spend most of their lives idling in one yard or another. UP found that they sucked fuel almost as fast idling as at full throttle. "The turbines burned about 90% of max HP fuel at idle so they would shut the turbine down going down longer hill. BIG THING, is you never stopped turning the turbine hot because the shaft was so long/heavy that it would sag when hot and you would never get it turning again. If you did it would be somewhat out of balance and shake the heck out of things." -- http://www.northeast.railfan.net/turbine_faq.html
Cool engines though, and other than the fuel consumption at idle, they were successful experiments.
RMS is true to his values, he won't (and can't, because of the GPL) add a restriction to the gcc or gnu binutils license that says "can't be used to build BitKeeper", but that's effectively what the BitKeeper license is saying, in reverse. In fact people, including Stallman, have taken great pains to point out the fact that the GPL doesn't apply in cases like what the BK license is restricting. For my money, the changes to the BK license are a cynical exploitation of the community which carries BK on its back.
* one forty-five caliber automatic
* two boxes of ammunition
* four days' concentrated emergency rations
* one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills
* one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible
* one hundred dollars in rubles
* one hundred dollars in gold
* nine packs of chewing gum
* one issue of prophylactics
* three lipsticks
* three pair of nylon stockings
I can shoot pictures with my film camera with dead batteries, or no batteries. If I'm out in the far reaches of BFE and my batteries go, I still can take photos. I have cameras that don't even take batteries. If a freezing wind puts the chemical reaction in my batteries to sleep, I can still take photos. I might run out of film sometime, but for the price and weight I'm sure I can carry around far more high-resolution high-fidelity frames.
Yep. Alongside learning PuTTY, grandmama will be a 133+ h4x0r in no time.
The original programmer cast the result to a float to avoid a precision warning
That should have been the red flag that was listened to. Tell me, what does ANSI C say about the result of casting a multiplication of two doubles to a float? How many bits of precision do you retain? What happens on overflow? Can this be different across platforms and O/S? 32-bit and 64-bit hardware? What happens if one or both of the operands is FLOAT_MAX?
If I were cynical I'd say the defense contractors came up with the fancy new name "aeroelastic" for technology that's been around since the beginning of heavier-than-air flight because you can't go to the Air Force and say, "Please give me a billion dollars to play with wing-warping".